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ENERGY ECONOMICS
Volume 129, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2023.107159
Keywords
Officials' promotion pressure; Green low-carbon transition; Mechanism analysis; Government green attention
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This study investigates the impact of officials' promotion pressure on green and low-carbon transition and its mechanisms. The findings suggest that promotion pressure significantly inhibits the transition, particularly before implementing the environmental inspection system. The study also explores the influence mechanism, showing that promotion pressure leads to a dependence on resource factors, industrial structure, and investment, which restricts the regional green low-carbon transformation.
Local governments are essential in enabling regional green transformation. Local officials are a key factor in government behavior. Using panel data from 277 cities at the prefecture level in China from 2009 to 2019, this study investigates the role of officials' promotion pressure on green and low-carbon transition and its mechanisms. The pressure of officials' promotions significantly inhibited the green low-carbon transition, and this inhibitory effect was greater before implementing the environmental inspection system. Regarding the influence mechanism, officials' promotion pressure leads to a dependence on resource factors, industrial structure, and investment in regional development, which restricts regional green low-carbon transformation. Furthermore, an additional moderating effect analysis was conducted to examine the impact of government green attention on the relationship between civil servants' promotion pressure and the green low-carbon transition. The results of this study are significant for optimizing officials' promotion mechanisms and facilitating green low-carbon transition in developing countries.
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